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2016-12-10T02:16:19.000000Z
Getty ImagesA French biotech company just took a crucial step toward preventing vexing new cases of Lyme disease, an epidemic that's spreading across the United States and Europe.
Valneva, which has been developing a preventative vaccine for the disease, announced on Friday that the Food and Drug Ad...

2016-12-10T02:16:00.000000Z
Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesFor scholars like me who study environmental justice, it has been encouraging to see residents in Flint, Michigan and the Standing Rock Sioux in North Dakota organize against threats to their homes and health.
But elsewhere in our country, other struggles are happening out of ...

2016-12-10T02:12:34.000000Z
Mike Segar/ReutersPresident-elect Donald Trump said on Friday he would name Andrew Liveris, chairman and chief executive of Dow Chemical, to head the Manufacturing Council, a private sector group that advises the U.S. secretary of commerce.
Trump made the announcement during a rally in Battle Creek,...

2016-12-10T01:51:00.000000Z
Reuters/Shannon StapletonWhen Donald Trump swept to victory in the Electoral College on Nov. 8, perhaps no group was more surprised than journalists, who had largely bought into the polls showing Hillary Clinton was consistently several percentage points ahead in key swing states.
But there may be a...

2016-12-10T01:23:00.000000Z
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On early Friday morning, the Ohio legislature removed an amendment that would have made gun owners who wish to store their guns in cars a protected class under state job discrimination law.
The House replaced it with language that would still prohibit employers from barring ...

2016-12-10T01:04:56.000000Z
Screenshot via YouTubeFaraday Future, the electric-car upstart that plans to reveal a production concept version of its car in Las Vegas in January, released a video on Friday showing its car racing a number of potential competitors.
The as-yet-unseen vehicle is heavily disguised in the short clip, ...

2016-12-10T01:03:43.000000Z
https://joinhouse.party/On Friday, an app you probably haven't heard of unless you're a teenager topped Facebook in the Apple App Store.
Houseparty, a group video chat app, ranked number 7 in Apple App Store for free apps — one slot above Facebook, the world's most dominant social network.
And it'...

2016-12-10T01:03:00.000000Z
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The push to confer full “personhood” status on every fertilized human egg has been rejected by voters and lawmakers in state after state, including deep-red Mississippi.
But activists are cautiously hopeful that their cause could get a boost from Republicans who are about to assume lead...

2016-12-10T00:41:00.000000Z
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If Donald Trump is serious about cracking down on drug prices, as he told Time Magazine, then he could start by beefing up Medicare’s bargaining clout in negotiating their bulk purchases of prescription drugs.
The Republican President-elect didn’t explain precisely what he has in...

2016-12-10T00:22:00.000000Z
Ty Wright/Getty ImagesWhen Anna found out she was pregnant in October, she knew she could not have another child. Her son was still a baby and she was struggling to find employment as a 30-year-old single mother in East Chicago, Indiana, where she lives.
So Anna went to the Planned Parenthood clinic...